july 29

July 29

Council of Trent confirmed the decrees pertaining to the Immaculate Conception 1546

Our Lady of Lourdes

In 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette saying "I am the Immaculate Conception" A golden rose adorned each of her bare feet. Official Lourdes website http://www.lourdes-france.org/index.php?goto_centre=ru&contexte=en&id=405

Golden Rose St. Ann's Park, Dublin, Ireland Pope Benedict XVI bestowed the Golden Rose upon the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during his apostolic pilgrimate to America in 2008.

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"I am pleased, my child, with the love and honor my children in America give to me, especially through my glorious and unique privilege of the Immaculate Conception. I promise to reward their love by working through the power of my Son's Heart and my Immaculate Heart miracles of grace among them. I do not promise miracles of the body, but of the soul." --Our Lady of America, September 25, 1956

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Flower of the Day

Yellow Flag Iris

Iris pseudocorus

Fleur-de-lis of French royalty, Mary as Queen, the Immaculate Conception

Ave Maria!